Former President Donald Trump has secured enough bond to support the jury’s award to writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million verdict stemming from her rape accusations against Trump. The trial indicates an appeal is ongoing.

Attorney Alina Habba submitted documents to a New York judge showing that Trump had received a $91.6 million bail from a federal insurance company. She also filed a notice of appeal indicating that Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner, is appealing the verdict. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The filing comes a day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan declined to postpone Monday’s bond deadline to ensure Carroll remains free on $83.3 million bail after an appeal.

Posting the bond is a necessary step to defer payment of the award until the Second Circuit decides.

Trump is under financial pressure to set aside funds to pay the Carroll verdict and a larger lawsuit in which he was found to have lied about his wealth in financial statements he provided to banks .

Most recently, a New York judge refused to halt a $454 million civil fraud fine pending Trump’s appeal. He now has until March 25 to pay in full or buy the bonds. Meanwhile, interest in judgments continues to grow, adding about $112,000 a day.
Trump’s lawyers asked that the verdict be preserved on appeal, warning that he may need to sell some properties to pay the fine.

On Thursday, Kaplan wrote that any financial damage to Trump was due to his slow response to a late-January defamation ruling involving comments about Carroll he made while he was president in 2019. The remarks came when she claimed in her memoir that Carroll raped her in the spring of 1996 in a dressing room at a luxury department store in downtown Manhattan.

Trump has strongly denied the claims, saying he did not know her and that the encounter at the Bergdorf Goodman store across the street from Trump Tower never happened.

Last May, a jury ultimately awarded Carroll $5 million after finding that Trump sexually abused her during the 1996 encounter, but the jury dismissed Carroll’s rape charge because the rape was As defined by New York State law. The award also stems in part from a jury finding that Trump made remarks in October 2022 that defamed Carroll.

The January trial only concerned comments Trump made during his term as president in 2019. Kaplan instructed the jury that it must accept the jury’s findings last May and simply decide how much, if any, Trump owed Carroll for his 2019 statement.

Trump did not attend the May trial, but he testified briefly during the January trial and sat regularly with defense attorneys, though his behavior, including what Carroll’s attorney said was enough to dissuade jurors The disparaging remarks he heard prompted Kaplan to threaten to deport him from the courtroom.